Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Nathan Fielder

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian writer Nathan Fielder.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Nathan Fielder

Nathan Joseph Fielder is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, producer, and entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating, directing, and starring in the Comedy Central parody reality show Nathan for You (2013–2017), the HBO docu-comedy The Rehearsal (2022), and executive producing How To with John Wilson (2020–present).

I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.
I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing. — © Nathan Fielder
It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.
Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in.
I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'
Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.
If I find something funny and make an older woman laugh, I love that for some reason.
Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.
A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.
I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.
In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
Some of the funniest things are just situations in life that are funny. The way people interact. People describing their first kiss with someone, to me, is really funny. When someone goes into detail about each moment of that, I really find that enjoyable to listen to.
In my personal life, I will do whatever it takes to make a situation comfortable if I sense - if I'm talking to someone [and] I sense there's a silence, I'll try to fill that gap. It makes me very anxious when things get uncomfortable.
Everyone’s default state is this pleasantry state. My goal in the show is to undercut that as quickly as possible. If you really do let it sit, it’s sometimes amazing what comes out of people.
If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb. — © Nathan Fielder
If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.
I agree that someone falling down is really funny, and I can go on YouTube and watch people falling. It makes me laugh.
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